We created monsters

Rating: 5/10 (27 February 2016)

This was big, loud and occasionally entertaining while dazzling with huge, crazy battle scenes. A visual spectacle in that regard but style more than substance. The story is predictable once it establishes itself and Charlie Hunnam has several shirtless scenes (for no reason I can think of other than to make (me) happy.) Nobody else takes their shirt off in the movie. I also wondered what the point was of having a stick fight training scene other than well, yum. It serves no purpose for operating the giant robots.
Hunnam's voice-over establishes the world this movie takes place in and does a great job in conveying the scope of a film. The story follows a burned out pilot and an inexperienced rookie who are forced to work together piloting massive human controlled robots to save the world from giant monsters that have risen from the sea.
I can see that there would be a definite audience for this type of movie as it looks like 'Transformers', 'Ironman', 'Battleship' etc, where the story is sort of inconsequential as its all about the huge special effects and CGI. Ultimately this wasn't for me but I knew that going in "Transformers vs Godzilla" is not my thing, I just figured with Idris Elba and Charlie Hunnam attached they could help me eye candy my way through it which they did 1/19/16